Austin Duus @ In Our Words | Don’t Care About the Old Folks: Gay and the Elderly. A thought-provoking piece about ageism in the queer community. ”What I had resented about (straight) senior citizens is that they are both politically enfranchised and had the good fortune to grow old with the esteem of society and recognition for the wisdom they have accumulated. Ten years ago I didn’t see those things as the future of my community. That is no longer the case.”

Heina @ Skepchick | For Instant Outrage, Just Add Sex. ”All of these experiences have made me regard any efforts to single out sex work as bad with a great deal of skepticism. Is there not plenty of degredation, humiliation, and dehumanization inherent to many types of work, not just sex work, especially when you consider places where there is no enforced protection of workers?”

Miriam @ Radical Doula | Update on The Radical Doula Guide and an excerpt from the intro. The amazing Miriam Zola Perez is putting together a radical doula guide (full disclosure, as a supporter I’ll be getting an advance copy and reviewing it in May). Here’s a excerpt; I’m so looking forward to the full publication!

Clarisse Thorn | [classic repost] BDSM As An Orientation, and the Complication of the Orientation Model. She’s talking specifically about BDSM, but I think a lot of these “complications” are similar across any notion of our sexuality as an innate orientation. In sum: for any aspect of our sexuality, for some people it’s experienced as a core component of self and for some people it’s not. Any model that relies to heavily on the core-component formulation will leave the fluid/contingent/situational folks out in the cold.